Mulago Specialised Hospital
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KAMPALA- Dr. Evelyn Nabunya, Executive Director of Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal Hospital has revealed that Government has finally started offering fertility treatment services like the In vitro fertilization (IVF) and already, 11 stimulations have been carried out while two women who signed up for these services are pregnant.

She made the revelation while appearing before Parliament’s Health Committee where she was presenting the Hospital’s 2025/26 Budget Framework Paper, where she went on to detail some of the achievements the facility has registered in the past six months.

“Some of the achievements we have had in their first half is the starting of the IVF services the long awaited. As we stand, we have already done a total of 11 stimulations, we had six embryo transfers five are awaiting while the embryos are frozen as they are prepared better. Two of these patients are still pregnant, two were clinical pregnancies however, they were lost. But we are hopeful as we are moving on with our team,” explained Nabunya.

According to the National Health Services of the United Kingdom, In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of several techniques available to help people with fertility problems have a baby. During IVF, an egg is removed from the woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilised egg, called an embryo, is then returned to the woman’s womb to grow and develop.

During the meeting, Nabunya also informed the Committee that 858 neonates commonly known as premature babies were handled and of these, 32.9% were preterm, 75 were weighing below 1Kgs and their survival rate was 59.1%. so babies even less than 1Kg are being looked after and surviving. Those between 1-1.4Kgs were 88 and their survival rate was 79.4%, while those 1.5-2.4Kgs had a survival rate of 87.3%.

She further explained that the survival rate for those considered normal weight was on a lower side compared to those bigger preterm because these babies are received at Mulago Women Hospital while they are very sick and are mostly transferred from the other hospitals like Kawempe National Referral Hospital and the private hospitals that transfer these babies directly.

“Our smallest surviving baby was born at 24weeks and weighed 500grams, just like this bottle. That baby is now a healthy 2 and half year old baby. This is a baby who survived retinopathy of prematurity because of the vigilance of the team. These babies are exposed to prolonged oxygen and they are in danger of getting blindness. So these babies survived that, it was detected early,” noted Nabunya.